Comments on: Religion makes relevant impacthttp://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/religion-makes-relevant-impact/18210/
A blog of opinions on local, state and national issuesFri, 09 Dec 2016 15:45:53 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Jeffreyhttp://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/religion-makes-relevant-impact/18210/#comment-15968
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:41:29 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/?p=18210#comment-15968This is moronic!! Let me understand this…to appreciate the works of say, Michelangelo one has to believe in God? I love the Mozart Requiem, should I convert back to Catholicism to fully “comprehend” it? Religion is quickly becoming irrelevant and exposed for what it is, the “opium of the masses”. Truer words were never spoken.
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Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:08:09 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/?p=18210#comment-15950No actually, what people have realized is that religion does not reflect a person’s worth and it is virtually irrelevant.

Religion is and should be irrelevant. Whether someone is antheist, Jewish, Christian, or Muslim should have no impact on how they treat others.

Unfortuantely those who are religion often let their religious beliefs influence how they treat others in a negative manner.

]]>By: iknowtruthisminehttp://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/religion-makes-relevant-impact/18210/#comment-15944
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:06:28 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/?p=18210#comment-15944I think that when we finally have contact with other extra-terrestrial civilizations, that have survived their religious phase, we will find that the generally accepted definition of when a species begins to gain sentience is when they evolve to the point where they can abstract enough to invent a god, and that the sign that they have achieved full sentience and maturity as a species, is when they further evolve to the point where they can cast off such ridiculous concepts. Religion, as it exists today, is little more than a way to control masses of people by playing upon their fears (mostly of death) and to fulfill the desire to think we are superior to not only the lower evolved animals, but to each other. Religion is a cheat and a lie, based on the accumulated and institutionalized myths and superstitions of our less than aware ancestors and we would be far better off without the crutch that forces so many to deny reality and is used to justify their irrational hatred of their fellow Human beings.
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